Month: June, 2013

There is finally some useful decentralized decision making software! Naturally, it was made in Germany. While it has been around for a while, but only recently has it been translated enough for the average American to make use of it. It doesn’t have many of the proposed integrated features of the democracy 2.0 system but it’s the best we got right now. Identity verification could potentially be accomplished by providing a social network page and a voter registry page with corresponding data. There’s still not a whole lot of people (almost zero Americans) using adhocracy and I think that’s partially because the tutorial they provide is not super helpful. So I made one. Here we go:

This is the first screen you should see on adhocracy.de

Fill out your information and create an account

Log in

Change your settings to English

You need to create an instance for your community if it doesn’t already exist

Continue setting up your community

Access the instance of your community

Create a new proposal for your community. You don’t have to follow the format outlined in the D-2.0 patent, but it might be easier to deal with larger community if proposals are more standardized.

Fill out all necessary fields for your proposal.

View, edit, and vote for proposals made by you and other community members.

Get others to join your community or become a member of a community started by someone else.

Finalize becoming a member of an existing community.

That’s all for today! There will be more posts later detailing the advanced intricacies of adhocracy. But that should be enough help to get you started. And please, if you still need help with this, don’t be shy about contacting me!